St. Louis protests peaceful at malls, shopping district

Sunday, 17 September 2017Noisy demonstrators disrupted shopping at upscale suburban St. Louis shopping malls and marched through a popular district of bars and restaurants Saturday in peaceful protests over the acquittal of a white St. Louis police officer who fatally shot a black man, and there was no sign of the sporadic vandalism and violence that marred the rallies a night earlier.

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in St. Louis on Friday after a Missouri judge ruled that a white former police officer was not guilty of murder charges in the 2011 shooting of a black man. 36-year-old Jason Stockley was acquitted of first-degree murder by Judge Timothy Wilson for...